Algo is 40 and from Ireland. In self imposed self isolation, Algo only wears black and enjoys studying the School of Austrian economics, reading comic books and meditating. Believes organized religion is a club but is not nihilistic.
Allen Ashley is President Elect of the British Fantasy Society. A regular contributor to "Sein und Werden" over the years, he is the founder of the advanced science fiction and fantasy group Clockhouse London Writers. His latest book is the poetry collection "Echoes from an Expired Earth" (Demain Publishing, UK, 2020). Amazon link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Echoes-Expired-Earth-Beats-Ballads-ebook/dp/B086XH41WH/
David Banks was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1943. He has been living abroad since 1975, for a short time in Iraq and since then in France, where he is now Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale. He has been writing and publishing poetry since the early 70s; his publications include Celt Seed, Selected Poems, (Poetry Salzburg, 2003), and Radicals, Poems 2002-2008, (Poetry Monthly, 2009). His other interests include choral singing and coastal rowing.
Julie Blankenship is an artist from San Francisco. Publications include Blood Bath, London Reader, Punt Volat; and cover of Farah Rose Smith's Of One Free Will. Her work has been exhibited widely, including Amsterdam Center for Photography; American Institute of Architects; and CHEAP Festival, Bologna. She taught at the SF Art Institute; curated exhibitions; and opened Visual Aid Gallery, while leading the arts/social justice organization serving artists with AIDS. She recently appeared in the film "Mrs. Vera's Daybook." https://www.instagram.com/privateyesf/
Jane Brooke is 23, a stick gay UK blonde, a child dyslexic autistic artist savage, kind verbage for saying she is insane. Plays piano, guitar, a welding, gold, silver artist, photographer, works the Paris, London runways to keep the coin coming in. 13 acid etched, violent, sexual HER generation novels over 100 Film/Noir/erotica stories published, her mantra is. If you're not offended, repulsed, entertained and wakened from your coma by her work, well she's failed as a writer. Her new novel VEGAS SAVAGES just dropped.
K Marvin Bruce is the author of twenty-for published short stories. His fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Write Well Award (Silver Pen Writers Association), and the Best of the Web Award. He won the Danse Macabre 2009 prix d'écriture de Noël in Fiction, and third place in Calliope's 20th Annual Fiction Contest (2014). https://kmarvinbruceblog.blogspot.com/p/k-marvin-bruce.html
Cecelia Chapman, ceceliachapman.com
B Drew Collier thought there would be enough time to get to Ruth Bader Ginsberg after COVID-19, but cancer doesn't wait...even for a pandemic. Lesson learned: if you want to kill your idol, don't put it off.
Norman Conquest is the brains (and the private parts) behind Black Scat Books in Northern California. His most recent book: smells like teen 'pataphysics.
Juliet Cook is brimming with black, grey, silver, purple, and dark red explosions. She is drawn to poetry, abstract visual art, and other forms of expression. Her poetry has appeared in a peculiar multitude of literary publications. You can find out more at www.JulietCook.weebly.com
Will Cordeiro has recent work appearing or forthcoming in Agni, Cimarron Review, The Cincinnati Review, DIAGRAM, Poet Lore, Rust + Moth, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Will won the 2019 Able Muse Book Award for Trap Street. Will co-edits the small press Eggtooth Editions. Currently, Will teaches in the Honors College at Northern Arizona University.
Kyle Ferguson was born in a small town in Saskatchewan and spent his formative years in Central Alberta. He is a psychologist and expat working in a tribal clinic in Washington State. He has published numerous works of nonfiction including journal articles, book chapters, and five books. Among others, his poems appear in the magazines, Quills, Sein und Werden, The Delinquent, Chimera, & Orbis. He has also published a smattering of short fiction.
Malcolm Flanigan currently resides in Rochester, NY. They graduated from SUNY Albany and their work has been published by lit mags such as Argus, Gandy Dancer, and Arch. Currently, they're working on a collection of short stories, as well as a collection of collages that blends images and words. In their spare time, they study counterpoint, and quietly repeat the word chiaroscuro to their self as they burn incense and listen to Bach chorales.
Steve Fried has taught writing fifty-three years in New York's topheavy, tottering, soon-to-be-toppling public university system. For updates to his ongoing poem "Surreal Numbers," email swfried@gmail.com
Richard Gessner is the Author of "The Conduit and other Visionary Tales of Morphing Whimsy" Rain Mountain Press, 2017. Gessner's fiction is published in: Fiction International, Skidrow Penthouse, Seinundwerden, Rampike, Another Chicago Magazine, Air Fish and other magazines. Drawings and paintings published/exhibited at Pleiades Gallery, Hamilton street Gallery, Raw Vision, Asbury Park Press, and the Donald B. Palmer Museum.
Boris Glikman is a writer, poet and philosopher from Melbourne, Australia. He says: "Writing for me is a spiritual activity of the highest degree. Writing gives me the conduit to a world that is unreachable by any other means, a world that is populated by Eternal Truths, Ineffable Questions and Infinite Beauty. It is my hope that these stories of mine will allow the reader to also catch a glimpse of this universe."
John Greiner is a writer and visual artist living in Queens, NY. His work has appeared in Antiphon, Sein und Werden, Sensitive Skin, Unarmed, Street Value, Horla and numerous other magazines. His books include Turnstile Burlesque (Crisis Chronicles Press), Bodega Roses (Good Cop/Bad Cop Press) and Shooting Side Glances (ISMs Press). His collaborative work with photographer Carrie Crow has appeared at the Tate Liverpool, the Queens Museum and in galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Venice, Paris, Berlin and Hamburg.
EF Hay exists in Britain & rather than follow spurious leaders- over the years he's intermittently found it therapeutic to write out various thoughts, feelings & ideas as short stories to be examined, considered, & interpreted by clinical practitioners who may be able to offer professional psychological assistance.
Twitter @EvanFindlayHay
Instagram @EvanFindlayHay
NA Jackson can't tell the difference between fiction and reality these days and can't decide whether to laugh or cry most of the time, can anyone? He spends quite a bit of time looking at small insects with a hand lens. This seems a good way of maintaining a broad view of the world. Sometimes he imagines what it would be like to be a gigantic praying mantis stalking the corridors of power in search of an easy meal.
Rachel Kendall's first book of short stories, Her Black Little Heart, was out a few years ago. I dunno, around 2004. Her daughter came out in 2009. Her second short story collection, The Bride Stripped Bare, published by Dog Horn Publishing, came out in 2013 and her short novel, Stranger Days, came out in 2015, published by Oneiros Books. She has various other things waiting to come out, and many she wishes she could shove back in. She has recently written a non-fiction horror film book which may or may not see the light of day.
Mark Kirkbride is the author of The Plot Against Heaven, Game Changers of the Apocalypse and Satan's Fan Club. Game Changers of the Apocalypse was a semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Awards 2019. His short stories can be found in Under the Bed, Sci Phi Journal, Disclaimer Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine and So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. Poetry credits include the Big Issue, Morning Star, Daily Mirror and HWA chapbooks. https://markkirkbride.com/
Two of Ken Poyner's poetry collections and four of his short fiction collections are widely available. He lives with his power-lifter wife, various cats and betta fish in the southeastern corner of Virginia. He spent thirty-three years in information security, moonlighting as a writer. Now, he writes dangerously full-time.
JB Pravda: http://cordite.org.au/author/jbpravda/
IB Rad is an independent New York City poet. Much of his more recent work is available on the internet. His latest book, "Dancing at the Abyss," was published by Scars Publications and is available from Amazon or it can be downloaded free of charge from the Scars' site (scars.tv). He believes a wide range of subjects can be accommodated by poetry, from potty training to love to war and peace and accordingly, stylistically, his philosophy is "Let the punishment fit the crime…" or, to put the matter another way, "Form follows function" (but that still leaves "more than one way to skin a cat" - a rather gruesome thought.)
Collin J. Rae is a Michigan born visual and aural artist currently living and working in northern Virginia. His photos have been published by TASCHEN books, European Photography Magazine, Secret Magazines and many others. The "Pandemic Portrait" project was born out of necessity in March of 2020 and is currently ongoing…until it ends.
Inspired by surreal aesthetics, Nelly Sanchez is a French collagist and writer specializing in late 19th century women's literature. She explores and questions female stereotypes and archetypes. She mixes and plays with symbols and colours to reveal the infinite interpretations of reality. Recently, she has been making sculptures and assemblages. Her artworks are often published as illustrations, as flyers or as coverbooks. Her new creations can be discovered on http://www.nellysanchez.fr or on Instagram: nellysanchezcollagiste
Gerard Sarnat MD authored four collections: Homeless Chronicles: from Abraham to Burning Man (2010), Disputes (2012), 17s (2014), Melting The Ice King (2016). His work's been widely published including by Stanford, Harvard, University Chicago, Columbia, Penn, Dartmouth, Brown, Oberlin, New Haven Poetry Institute, Northampton Review, Buddhist Poetry Review, Review Berlin, New Ulster, Gargoyle, American Journal Poetry, Poetry Quarterly, Free State Review, Poetry Circle, MainStreet Rag, New Delta Review, Brooklyn Review, Los Angeles Review, San Francisco Magazine, The New York Times. gerardsarnat.com
Linda Ann Strang is the author of the poetry collection Wedding Underwear for Mermaids. Her poems have appeared internationally in Poetry Kanto, The Malahat Review, PANK, and elsewhere. Poetry Kanto nominated her work for a Pushcart Prize in 2007. She lives in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Douglas Thompson's fiction and poetry has appeared in a range of magazines and anthologies. He has published 14 novels and collections since 2009, in Britain, Europe and America. His 14th book, 'Barking Circus' is out this year from Zagava.
https://douglasthompson.wordpress.com/
Mark Tulin is a former psychotherapist who lives in California with his wife, Alice. He his books include Magical Yogis, Awkward Grace, The Asthmatic Kid and Other Stories available at Amazon. He's been featured in Still Point Journal, The Writing Disorder, New Readers Magazine, among others. Mark's website is https://crowonthewire.com/
Patrick Wright has a forthcoming collection, Full Sight Of Her, published by Eyewear. He has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and his poems have appeared in several magazines, most recently Agenda, The High Window, and Wasafiri. He has been twice included in The Best New British and Irish Poets anthology (2018 and 2019), judged by Maggie Smith and Nick Makoha, respectively. He teaches English Literature and Creative Writing at the Open University, and lives in Manchester. Website: www.patrickiwright.co.uk
